There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
TONI MORRISONThere is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
TONI MORRISONA sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
TONI MORRISONFrom my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
TONI MORRISONAnything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISONLike any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISONIt is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISONI always know the ending; that’s where I start.
TONI MORRISONWhen a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
TONI MORRISONMake a difference about something other than yourselves.
TONI MORRISONThe pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
TONI MORRISONI get angry about things, then go on and work.
TONI MORRISONAnger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
TONI MORRISONIf you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
TONI MORRISONThere’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
TONI MORRISONLove is never any better than the lover.
TONI MORRISONBlack women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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